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While talking, Anastasia slowly made her way to the balcony. She laughed as she commented, “Jared resembles you when you were a child? How is that possible, though?”
“He really does. If you don’t believe me, I can send my childhood pictures for you to see. The resemblance is uncanny!” Nigel kept emphasizing.
“You don’t have to. I believe you. As long as you looked good as a child, that means that my son looks handsome too!”
“Are you implying that I’m handsome too?”
“You always were handsome.”
“You like handsome guys, right? With me being so handsome, that means you like me too.” Nigel laughed out happily on the other end of the line.
Anastasia, who was teased to laughter by his joke, also laughed out loud.
Yet, at that moment, the man who was still eating the noodles at the table suddenly found the food to be bland and tasteless after hearing their conversation.
Whenever this woman was with him, she would act like she was facing her mortal enemy, but when she was doing anything else with another man, she would always put on a smile and talk in a sweet voice.
Do I really not deserve to see her smile?
Meanwhile, Anastasia did not want to chat anymore and told Nigel. “I’ll have to trouble you then, Nigel. I’m going to take a bath now, so I’ll be hanging up first **
“Alright. Remember to think about me.”
“I will. I’ll treat you to a meal next time.”
“Alright! I’ll be looking forward to it.”
“Okay. Goodbye.” Anastasia then hung up after that and just enjoyed the cool breeze on the balcony when suddenly, a cold husky voice came from behind her. “Someone had a grand old time with Nigel!”
Looking back at the man who suddenly appeared on the balcony, she raised her eyebrows. “Have you finished your noodles?”
“I have.”
“Then you best be going! It’s getting quite late now. Oh—and I’m not going to pick Jared up tonight as he’ll be sleeping over at Nigel’s.”
An Envious Man,My Baby’s Daddy
“So that means that you’ll be sleeping alone tonight?” A roguish look flashed across the man’s eyes. Instantly, Anastasia was on high alert as she looked at him and asked, “What do you mean?”
“Nothing much. It’s just that I want to sleep on your bed.” “Don’t push your luck. Go back to sleep at your own home. Otherwise, I’ll ban you from ever eating over here again.” “Your dad looked very happy tonight, but the time left until his company is taken over is only three months away.
If you want your dad to still look this happy in the future, just let me sleep here for the night,” Elliot uttered the cruel words while looking at the faraway lights. Meanwhile, Anastasia was left in disbelief by his words and she froze for a second. “The opposition this time is very strong.
If I don’t interfere, no one has the ability to save your father’s company. Maybe your father can go around asking for favors and using his connections, but it won’t change the fate of his company being taken over in the end.” Feeling as though all the energy had left her body, Anastasia was stuck in a dilemma.
She did not want anything to happen to her father’s company, yet she also did not want to beg Elliot. “Maybe my dad would be luckier, maybe his company…” However, Anastasia could not continue, as she knew that her father’s ‘luck’ all these years was actually just Elliot helping him out behind the scenes.
“Anastasia, do you think that it would be better for your father to go beg someone else, or do you think that it would be better if you begged me on his behalf?” His voice growing hoarse, Elliot then continued, “Even if I’m not obligated to do so, I am still very willing to help you and your father out.”
Hearing this, Anastasia could only look at the city’s nightlights, and she had the sudden feeling that even the sky was not big enough to fit her troubles. How did things spiral to this point? The man she did not want to beg the most turned out to be the man who could solve all her problems.
In the end, it was all because she was not tough enough, yet she also did not want to see her father go around begging people, so Anastasia bit her lip and looked at Elliot. “Do you want to sleep in my son’s or my bed?” Smirking, the man answered definitively, “Your bed.” The moment the words left her mouth, Anastasia felt as if she had trampled all over her principles. In the end, she hung her head low and despised how she was acting at the moment.
Guessing her thoughts, Elliot suddenly hugged her. “Anastasia, I won’t permit you to look down on yourself. Even if you didn’t beg me, I would still have helped your father. I promise that in this life, I will make sure that you and your father will live in peace and never have to worry about money ever again.”
Admittingly, the man had a power to easily pick on her softest spot at her most vulnerable moments. “Thank you.” Reaching out, Anastasia tried to push him away, but Elliot would not let her do so. At that point, he dropped a loving kiss to her hair. “Don’t worry. I’m here to protect you.” This sentence made Anastasia think that he was omnipotent, and that he could block anything from harming her and her family.
For some unknown reason, she stayed in his embrace without struggling, and she did not know if it was because the feeling of being protected by him was very nice or that she did not have the strength to struggle anymore. They stayed this way until her phone rang again. Taking it out, she saw it was from Nigel, so she broke free from Elliot’s embrace while composing herself.
Just as Anastasia was about to answer the call, the man snatched it away from her and turned on the loudspeaker. “Hello, Anastasia. Are you afraid of sleeping alone? Do you want to chat for a while?”
The lovesick voice of Nigel echoed around the silent balcony. This made Anastasia’s face blush. This evil man! Why did he turn on the loudspeaker? Yet, since the phone was in Elliot’s hands, she couldn’t snatch it back even if she wanted to. “Uh… There’s no need for that. Nigel, just go to sleep. Goodnight!”
Anastasia just wanted to end the conversation as soon as possible. “I can’t sleep. I’m thinking of you, you know?” At this point, Nigel was still unaware that his flirtatious words were being overheard by a third party. “Nigel… Nigel, stop talking right now and just go to sleep! I’m going to hang up now.”
However, Nigel began to act spoiled. “Sing a song for me, then. It can even be a children’s song used to humor Jared. If you do it, then I’ll sleep. If you don’t, then I won’t.” Elliot’s expression became thunderous when he heard those words, while Anastasia’s face became as red as a tomato. Why did she have to encounter such a thing?
“Nigel, stop fooling around now and go to sleep! I really am going to hang up now.” Saying that, Anastasia rushed over to snatch her phone back. However, Elliot did not want to give it back.
Anastasia did not dare get too loud, as it would be hard to explain if Nigel found out that another man was at her house. It would definitely damage her reputation. “I don’t want to. Quick, just one song. I’m waiting for you!” Obviously, they could hear that Nigel had turned over and was waiting patiently.